Vicus Bad[---] : la contribution de l’épigraphie à la reconstruction du tissu socio-culturel d’un village de la Moesia Inferior (Ier–IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.)

In the eighties years of the twentieth century, the quadriburgium of Mihai Bravu, from Tulcea county in Dobrudja (ancient region of Moesia, then Moesia Inferior), returned a dozen of public and private inscriptions, mostly fragmentary and only partially recovered and published. These texts provide an interesting insight on the village's institutions, on the monuments of the site, on the cults and especially on the population (veterani, immigrants with at least the Latin citizenship, freedmen) who lived in the otherwise unknown vicus Bad[---], emerged during the Early Empire, later dismantled by Constantine in order to build a fort. The epigraphic evidence provides an important image of Romanization, urbanization and occupation of agricultural areas near the Danubian limes before the Tetrarchy.